Napoleon : the man behind the myth
Zamoyski, Adam2018
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The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? Whilst he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man, and as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct.
Main title:
Napoleon : the man behind the myth / Adam Zamoyski.
Author:
Zamoyski, Adam, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2018.
Collation:
xxiii, 727 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008116071 (hbk)
Dewey class:
944.04092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2714193